Morgan Foust

In the US, cars get more rights and status than immigrants.

Why are you installing manually? Just run the docker. It's literally on k8s. It's in a jenkins recipe. It's literally on terraform. Dude it's on ansible. You can git it. It's on npm. You can install it with npm. Run npm right now. Go to npm. Dive into npm. It's on npm. npm has it for you.

Ah, so you're a Drop Duchy fan as well?

I'm not sure how to break an organization out of that mindset, but it disappoints me when I see IT support willfully living up to it.

Yeonmi Park with an open speech bubble.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Mild hot take: IT shouldn't pressure employees to put in helpdesk tickets. The ticketing system is for IT's benefit. It isn't the user's problem.
If the user didn't put in a ticket, or couldn't, or just plain doesn't want to, then the IT staffer helping that user should fill out the ticket.

*waking up in the morning* Oh, what a lovely day! I sure hope that I get a bunch of texts from unknown numbers with pictures of random Democrats in them!

This is why I'm skeptical whenever anybody says that LLMs make them more efficient at work. Did they save you time, or did they just let you transfer your workload to somebody else?

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

"Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers. ... [W]orkslop uniquely uses machines to offload cognitive work to another human being." - Harvard Business Review.

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

I got there via Ed Zitron, but I'm guessing you already know about him.

I have recently discovered Nikhil Suresh's blog, ludic.mataroa.blog. Professionally he's a data scientist and software developer, but its his writings on the absurdity of corporate culture that resonate with me. Office humor is as old as the Chancery, but today's insanity invites a sharper tongue.

An industrial machine safety sticker that reads, "WARNING. IT IS POSSIBLE TO SURVIVE THIS BUT NOT UNALTERED."

Meanwhile, Windows Server (y'know, the OS corporations use for, uh, servers) by default comes with Xbox Game Bar and Xbox Live services installed. (Turned off, to be fair, but still installed.)

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

Greta Thunberg relates the blatantly fascist treatment she received while incarcerated in Israel.

An old Western Union Telegram that reads, in all caps, "FUCK YOU STRONG LETTER TO FOLLOW"

Samuel Beckett wrote a play about that.

Also, state and local minimum wage hikes of the last several years have buoyed household income in the lowest two quintiles. But if you're working poor in a place that didn't get one - say, Pennsylvania - then your real income has declined. That also doesn't show up in natl averages.

Even if inflation has stabilized, it's stabilized with high housing/medical/education costs (and food, whose prices hit an inflection point in 2020). Households of limited means are justified in feeling like the economy sucks even if the stats show otherwise.

Think of CPI as an average - some prices in the bundle rise faster than inflation (housing, medical care, education) and some slower or even get cheaper (electronics, travel). The stuff that rises faster tend to be needs and the stuff that doesn't tend to be wants.

@greybunny.bsky.social okay your profile pic - I understand that reference ❤️

Alton Brown, Cutthroat-era, smiling wickedly with a JoJo "menacing" aura.

If there's one famous chef who secretly has a stand

Some of the biggest drivers of wage growth at the lowest income quintile have been state and local minimum wage hikes. If you live in a state that didn't get a recent min wage increase (say, PA) you then your experience isn't captured in natl averages.

People absorb growing housing costs, especially renters, by moving further away from their jobs, further away from their communities, and accepting smaller apartments. You don't see these compromises on CPI.

Housing and medical care cost growth have outpaced CPI for decades. They're offset by slower growth / price reductions in manufactured goods, entertainment, and travel. The numbers might average out but the former cause more anxiety than the latter.

Looking strictly at CPI is also, as always, examining cost of living through a mirror darkly. It's making multiple errors of composition in that 1) it doesn't affect everybody equally and 2) it doesn't affect all foods equally.

Shower thought: planting lots of native pollinator friendly plants around your house as a defense against weeping angels. Good luck moving when there are countless moths and bees fluttering around, suckers!